Miriam

Suzanne

Paul

Grant

Stephanie

Hobson

Wendee

Fiorillo

Full-Day Workshops

On the third day in the French Quarter, we deep dive into the Web

Let’s Build a Website (and Talk About The Job of Front-End Design and Development)

Hosted by Chris Coyier

It’s an ever-evolving field, they say, and the job of a front-ender these days is broad. It’s not just “I write the HTML and CSS” anymore, if it ever was. It’s part designer, part coder, part empath, part interaction designer, and part futurist. Let’s talk about all that by actually building a website. We’ll start from scratch, work through the stages of the process, and end up with a finished website. This will give us an excuse to talk about all the big topics in front-end development and what our jobs really are.

How will this happen? Among other things:

We’ll scaffold out a design in HTML, giving us an opportunity to talk about things like HTML5, semantics, and accessibility in their native contexts.

We’ll lay out the site in CSS, and in the process talk about things like modern layout techniques (flexbox! grid!), preprocessing, and the role of build tools in the front end process.

We’ll use some JavaScript to do things that only JavaScript can do, but we’ll do it in a responsible way that performs well and doesn’t cripple the site if it doesn’t load.

At every turn, we’ll consider performance and user experience, making sure we’re building something for human beings, not spec sheets or portfolios.

And we’ll think about how to make the offline experience the best it can be, because we never know when someone will suddenly lose bandwidth due to network outages, subway tunnels, or holding the phone wrong.

All this in just one day? Yes! By the time we’re done, we’ll have reconsidered not just what we do, but why we do it, and how to do it better moving forward.

React Workshop

Hosted by Wes Bos

React is a JavaScript library that has become the tool the choice for easily building dynamic user interfaces. The power is in the Virtual Dom — when your application’s data changes, React figures out which parts of your document need to be changed, and immediately update only those parts.

Hundreds of thousands of developers from small agencies to large companies use React to deliver top notch experiences in their apps and dynamic website components:

Facebook.com is made up of thousands of React components.

Instagram web viewer is entirely built in React.

The brand new Netflix movie browsing experience is powered by React

and many more!

You will learn:

How to build an entire App or Website Component in React.js from start to finish.

Understanding React Components and writing markup with JSX

Maintain your Application’s State

Communication between components

Working with State and HTML5 LocalStorage

Real time web socket data with Firebase

Creating maintainable code with JavaScript Modules

URL routing with React Router

Taking advantage of new ES6 Features

Design Systems Workshop

Hosted by Micah Godbolt

Join Micah Godbolt, Senior Design Developer at Microsoft and author of Frontend Architecture for Design Systems, as he shows the Four Pillars of Frontend Architecture and how to deploy scalable and sustainable web sites. Attendees will learn about popular tools and techniques as we build a fully featured design system from the ground up.

By coding along with Micah in this workshop you will learn:

How to establish proper coding standards, and how to enforce them.

How to create a streamlined and automated process for turning user stories into deployed frontend code.

The value of automated testing in all areas of your site, including visual, functional and performance.

And the best tools for creating living, powerful and useful documentation that will be the center of communication between every member of your team.

Micah will also show you:

How to create consistent methodologies and coding standards for HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

How to make a fully automated process from the editor to the style guide to the production environment.

How to develop a full testing suite using a combination of multiple testing approaches.

And how to write a fully documented system using various automated and manual documentation systems.

Web Animation Workshop

Hosted by Sarah Drasner and Val Head

Get up and running with web animation in less time than it would take to read all the tutorials you have bookmarked. In this workshop, you'll get an in-depth look at animating with CSS, JavaScript, and SVG through hands-on exercises while learning how to make your project stand out from the competition with effective animation.

By coding along with Sarah and Val in this workshop, you’ll learn:

The essentials of CSS animation

Principles of UI/UX for animation

Basics of TweenMax and TimelineMax

SVG workflow and optimization

SVG animation, both with a library and without

Sarah and Val will also show you:

How to choose which web animation technologies are best for your projects, with an overview of the animation landscape, explaining which tools to choose and why

What CSS transforms, transitions and keyframe animations can do and how to use them effectively in your work

Best practices and principles to follow to ensure the animations you create are adding something positive to the user experience, not distracting from it.

How to bend SVGs to your will- both regarding optimization and performance, as well as creating dazzling visual effects that bring your project to life.

What people will tell you about CSS Dev Conf

Sara Soueidan

After attending, I feel like this is the conference I want to attend every year. Lots of incredibly useful, practical information I can start working with right away.

Shannon Gray

UX Designer at Applied Information Sciences

This is a great event for your whole team to attend. The care into the schedule is the big winner.

Dan Denney

Front-end Dev for Code School

Since this conference is, no surprise, largely focused on CSS, I think it serves as an interesting state of the union of CSS style conference every year

Chris Coyier

Curator of CSS-Tricks

Hey, CSS Dev Conf — This has been the best conference experience I've ever had.

Henry Hollingsworth

Web Designer/Developer for Vology, Inc.

I had such a great time. Learned some cool stuff and met some awesome people!

Rona Kilmer

Front-End Architect at Kenzan

It's a conf that feels like a vacation where you learn lots and meet great people

Wes Bos

Educator and full stack web developer

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Conference Hotel & Venue

In the world famous French Quarter

Since 1886, the Hotel Monteleone has proudly stood as one of the first landmarks in the city of New Orleans.
This world-famous French Quarter hotel is within walking distance of the most famous attractions and restaurants in New Orleans.

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